School Trip – Hello Coffee 2025

Only once a year in January you can experience life of a coffee farmer: from bean to cup!

Our friends from School Coffee organize a yearly event in which they take you on a 3 day (2 nights) trip to the countryside in the mountains around Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai province. During this trip you’ll learn everything about coffee, basically from seed to cup of coffee! The whole process! So as you can imagine this will be a field trip to local farms, learning about the plants, about the beans, about the growing process, about a natural and organic approach… you’ll get to experience picking of the coffee beans and see all sorts of types and variations to process the beans. This is a once in a year experience for true coffee lovers that like to know everything about their coffee, or would like to learn new valuable skills for themselves. There will be a coffee tasting championship too, to see who’s a good and accurate taste for all the different coffees you’ll get to try.

Note that P’Big the owner of School Coffee is a respectable international coffee tasting judge on championships and so are some of the employees in School Coffee that will join this trip!

Coffee Farming experience Chiang Mai

During these days you’ll live a similar life to that of a coffee farmer as we go to the countryside in the mountains. You’ll definitely go to places you’ve never been before (about 3-4-5 hours from Chiang Mai city) and you’ll meet other coffee lovers that are eager to learn together with you. During these days there are also more cultural activities planned. These includes super local visits to (famous) locals and places, try the amazing local cuisine and we’ll visit a local school to donate food and help the local community over there. Hope to see you on 10-12 or 24-26 January, or another day in School Coffee in Chiang Mai!

Photo album of School trip last years can be found here and here (Facebook link).

School Coffee Trip Chiang Mai

The trip to the Chiang Mai countryside takes place from 10-12 January 2025. There are 18 spots and 5 people can get placed on the reserve list. This takes places at Ban Nong, seven units, district. Ban Chan, district. Kalyaniwattana province. Chiang Mai.” (บ้านหนองเจ็ดหน่วย ต.บ้านจันทร์ อ.กัลยาณิวัฒนา จ.เชียงใหม่).

Sign up link here (Google Form and details) if the form is closed, the trip might be full already!

Day 1: January 10, 2025

08.00 Meet and depart from School Coffee, Chiang Mai Province

13.00 Arrive at Ban Nong Chet Nui, greet the host, introduce yourself, check in to the accommodation and have lunch

14.00 Travel to the coffee garden to learn about growing coffee from coconut shells and planting coffee seedlings in the garden

16.30 Return to the accommodation, wash your face before going to the walking street to distribute coffee

18.00 Check in to the accommodation and have dinner together, relax as you wish

20.00 Make coffee

Day 2: January 11, 2025

06.00 Go out to watch the sunrise (And let’s see if the sea of ​​fog will come)

08.00 Have lunch together

09.00 Depart for Huai Tong Coffee Plantation

09.30 Listen to basic knowledge about coffee cherry picking and start picking coffee cherries

12.30 Have lunch together

13.30 Return to the accommodation to learn about various processes, both in theory and practice

16.00 Go relax at the reservoir

17.00 Return to the accommodation and have dinner together

19.00 Go to Khun Chi Coffee Shop to meet Pati Thongdee, the village’s wisdom forester

20.00 Return to the accommodation, gather around to make coffee and relax as you wish

Day 3: January 12, 2025

08.00 Have lunch together

Visit children and give rice and dry food at a nearby School

09.00 10.00 Learn the basics of taste perception

11.30 Explore the results of the processing and learn about the changes

12.00 Lunch

13.00 Depart for Chiang Mai

17.00 Arrive in Chiang Mai safely at School Coffee

School Coffee Trip Chiang Rai

The trip to the Chiang Rai countryside takes place from 24-26 January 2025. There are 10 spots and 3 people can get placed on the reserve list. This takes places at “Baan Huai Nam Kun district. Vieng Pa Pao province. Chiang Rai” (บ้านห้วยน้ำกืน อ.เวียงป่าเป้า จ.เชียงราย).

Sign up link here (Google Form and details) if the form is closed, the trip might be full already!

Day 1: 24 January 2025

08.30 Meet at School Coffee shop in Chiang Mai and depart to Rim Tarn Pa Miang

10.30 Arrive at Rim Tarn Pa Miang, taste special coffee from Phi Wanlop’s coffee garden

11.30 Depart for Huai Nam Khuen

12.30 Arrive at Huai Nam Kun, check in to the accommodation, wash your face, have lunch

13.30 Go to Nam Wan coffee garden, learn about sustainable coffee farming, plant seedlings, dig holes and plant coffee

15.00 Watch a welcoming performance from children of Pang Makad Witthaya School/Visit the coffee drying area

16.30 Return to the accommodation and relax at your leisure

17.30 Have dinner

19.00 Learn the basics of roasting

Day 2: 25 January 2025

07.00 Give alms to monks in front of the house (Depending on which group is convenient for you)

08.00 Have breakfast and drink coffee together

09.30 Depart for the coffee plantation of Por Dom to listen to the basic knowledge of coffee cherry picking and start

Coffee cherry picking

12.00 Have lunch together at Por Dom coffee plantation

13.00 Return to the accommodation to learn about various processes, both in theory and practice

15.00 Learn about basic tasting

16.30 Relax at your leisure

18.00 Have dinner together

19.00 Learn the basics of drip coffee

Day 3: January 26, 2025

07.00 Give alms in front of the house (Depending on which group is convenient for you)

07.30 Have lunch together

08.30 Take the coffee to dry

09.30 Depart to visit Brother Wan’s coffee drying area

Arrive at Rim Tarn Pa Miang, change vehicles to enter Brother Wan’s Pa Miang coffee plantation

Visit the cartoon room, water energy process yard, SCATH01 garden

14.30 Eat lunch together

15.30 Return to the stream at Pa Miang to travel back to Chiang Mai

17.30 Arrive in Chiang Mai safely at School Coffee

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